Delay in multi-level parking lot projects in capital

Even arsenic metropolis residents proceed to look parking woes whenever they task retired with their vehicles, enactment connected immoderate of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation’s multi-level car parking (MLCP) projects person been delayed for a agelong time. Some of these projects were expected to beryllium commissioned astatine slightest 2 years ago. At a property league connected Thursday, Mayor V.V.Rajesh admitted that “even 60%” of immoderate of the MLCP projects person not been completed, blaming the erstwhile medication for the delays. He besides pointed astatine access-related issues successful the existing parking lots. Administrative authorisation was accorded to a full of 3 MLCPs successful the metropolis mode backmost successful 2018. Initially, these were planned nether the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 1.0 scheme. One of these parking lots, with 7 floors and a capableness to parkland 102 cars, located wrong the Corporation bureau premises, was completed. However, the projects astatine Putharikandam Maithanam and Medical College continued to resistance connected owed to assorted issues. With the execution play of projects nether AMRUT 1.0 coming to an extremity successful 2023, the 2 MLCP projects were transferred to the Smart City strategy arsenic these projects could not beryllium accommodated nether AMRUT 2.0. The AMRUT 1.0 strategy had a constituent for ‘improvement successful municipality transport facilities’, nether which the MLCPs were planned. However, the AMRUT 2.0, which focuses much connected drinking h2o related issues, does not person specified a component. The MLCP astatine Medical College, estimated to outgo ₹19 crore, tin accommodate a full of 210 cars. The different MLCP, located astatine a country of the Putharikandam Maithanam, besides has astir a akin design. 

Published - April 30, 2026 08:58 p.m. IST